Jonathan Taylor is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His books include the novels Melissa(Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers(Salt, 2012), the poetry collection Musicolepsy(Shoestring, 2013), and the memoir Take Me Home: Parkinson’s, My Father, Myself (Granta Books, 2007). He is director of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. He lives in Leicestershire, in the UK, with his wife, the poet Maria Taylor, and their twin daughters, Miranda and Rosalind.